Our Commitment
to Privacy
Our Privacy Policy was developed as an extension of our commitment
to combine the highest quality products and services with the highest
level of integrity in dealing with our clients and partners. The Policy
is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect, use and
safeguard the personal information you provide to us and to assist
you in making informed decisions when using our site and our products
and services. This statement will be continuously assessed against
new technologies, business practices and our customers' needs. What
Information Do We Collect?
When you visit our Web site you may provide us with two types of
information: personal
information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on
an individual basis and Web site use information collected on an
aggregate basis as you and others browse our Web site.
1. Personal Information You Choose to Provide
Credit Card Information
If you choose to purchase products or services from us or our partners,
you may need to give personal information and authorization to obtain
information from various credit services. For example, you may need
to provide the following information:
• Name
• Mailing address
• Email address
• Credit card number
• Home and business phone number
• Other personal information (i.e. mother’s maiden name)
Email Information
In addition to providing the foregoing information to our partners,
if you choose to correspond further with us through email, we may
retain the content of your email messages together with your email
address and our responses. We provide the same protections for these
electronic communications that we employ in the maintenance of information
received by mail and telephone.
2. Web Site Use Information
Similar to other commercial Web sites, our Web site utilizes a standard
technology called
“cookies” (see explanation below, “What Are Cookies?”) and Web server
logs to collect
information about how our Web site is used. Information gathered
through cookies and Web server logs may include the date and time
of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our Web site, and the
Web sites visited just before and just after our Web site. This
information is collected on an aggregate basis. None of this information
is associated with you as an individual.
How Do We Use the Information That You Provide to Us?
Broadly speaking, we use personal information for purposes of administering
our business activities, providing customer service and making available
other products and services to our customers and prospective customers.
Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify
you about important changes to our Web site, new services and special
offers we think you will find valuable. The lists used to send you
product and service offers are developed and managed under our traditional
corporate standards designed to safeguard the security and privacy
of our customers’ personal information. As a customer, you will
be given the opportunity, at least once annually, to notify us of
your desire not to receive these offers.
What Are Cookies? Cookies are a feature of Web
browser software that allows Web servers to recognize the computer
used to access a Web site. Cookies are small pieces of data that
are stored by a user’s Web browser on the user’s hard drive. Cookies
can remember what information a user accesses on one Web page to
simplify subsequent interactions with that Web site by the same
user or to use the information to streamline the user’s transactions
on related Web pages. This makes it easier for a user to move from
Web page to Web page and to complete commercial transactions over
the Internet. Cookies should make your online experience easier
and more personalized.
How Do We Use Information We Collect from Cookies?
We use Web site browser software tools such as cookies and Web server
logs to gather
information about our Web site users’ browsing activities, in order
to constantly improve our Web site and better serve our customers.
This information assists us to design and arrange our Web pages
in the most user-friendly manner and to continually improve our
Web site to better meet the needs of our customers and prospective
customers. Cookies help us collect important business and technical
statistics. The information in the cookies lets us trace the paths
followed by users to our Web site as they move from one page to
another. Web server logs allow us to count how many people visit
our Web site and evaluate our Web site’s visitor capacity. We do
not use these technologies to capture your individual email address
or any personally identifying information about you although they
do permit us to send focused online banner advertisements or other
such responses to you.
Sharing Information with Affiliates
From time to time you may notice offers from outside companies advertised
on our Web site. We take measures to select product or service providers
that are responsible and afford privacy protections to their customers.
However, we cannot make any representations about the practices
and policies of these companies.
Notice of New Services and Changes
Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify
you about important changes to our Web site, new services and special
offers we think you will find valuable. As our client, you will
be given the opportunity to notify us of your desire not to receive
these offers by clicking on a response box when you receive such
an offer or by contacting us through our contact
page, click here for contact page...
How Do We Secure Information Transmissions?
When you send confidential personal credit card information to us
on our Web site, a secure server software which we have licensed
encrypts all information you input before it is sent to us. The
information is scrambled en route and decoded once it reaches our
Web site. Other email that you may send to us may not be secure
unless we advise you that security measures will be in place prior
to your transmitting the information. For that reason, we ask that
you do not send confidential information such as Social Security
or account numbers to us through an unsecured email.
How Do We Protect Your Information?
Information Security. We utilize encryption/security
software to safeguard the confidentiality of personal information
we collect from unauthorized access or disclosure and accidental
loss, alteration or destruction.
Evaluation of Information Protection Practices. Periodically, our
operations and business practices are reviewed for compliance with
corporate policies and procedures governing the security, confidentiality
and quality of our information.
Employee Access, Training and Expectations. Our corporate values,
ethical standards, policies and practices are committed to the protection
of customer information. In general, our business practices limit
employee access to confidential information, and limit the use and
disclosure of such information to authorized persons, processes
and transactions.
How Can You Access and Correct Your Information?
You may request access to all your personally identifiable information
that we collect online and maintain in our database by contacting
us through our contact page, click here for
contact page...
Do We Disclose Information to Outside Parties?
We may provide aggregate information about our customers, sales,
Web site traffic patterns and related Web site information to our
affiliates or reputable third parties, but this information will
not include personally identifying data, except as otherwise provided
in this Privacy Policy.
What About Legally Compelled Disclosure of Information?
We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so, in
other words, when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires
it or for the protection of our legal rights.
What About Other Web Sites Linked to Our Web Site?
We are not responsible for the practices employed by Web sites linked
to or from our Web site nor the information or content contained
therein. Often links to other Web sites are provided solely as pointers
to information on topics that may be useful to the users of our
Web site. Please remember that when you use a link to go from our
Web site to another Web site, our Privacy Policy is no longer in
effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other Web site, including
Web sites which have a link on our Web site, is subject to that
Web site’s own rules and policies. Please read over those rules
and policies before proceeding.
Your Consent
By using our Web site you consent to our collection and use of your
personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. If we
change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes
on our Web site to keep you aware of what information we collect,
how we use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it.
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